Good, but more Science Fiction and less action needed

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2005)

Here is a story immediately borrowing from Logan's Run, which was an excellent sci-fi flick from the pre-Star Wars days. There we had Logan 5, and here we have Lincoln 6 echo. The first 45 min of this story involves some interesting ideas and is intriguing to say the least with contamination, proximities, a strange lottery and a built in sort of camp society similar to the Logans. However after the setup, the ideas sort of halt for a bunch of heavy duty action sequences reminiscent of Judge Dread. The lead actors are fun to follow although I would have liked to have seen more of the Buschemi character. That part of the storyline was underdeveloped and it seemed to have strength. Also I didn't care much for the last cut-away either. But, overall the movie didn't disappoint and actually overcame my expectations which I set kind of low to begin with. The movie seemed like it didn't take full advantage of potentially better sci-fi story lines. Leave the action films to 007, but this is worth a rental.